MisterH Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Many years ago, around 2015, when I was exploring the area around Winchester where I live, I came across a strange gull winged 6 wheel car called the Shikari I knew immediately this was something special, it was so strange, looked like a Bond villain's base runaround, or something similar. It is clearly made using BL/Ford parts, but is clearly on a unique chassis I have tried looking this thing up online and have found very little information on it, but I do know it is called the Automotive Services Shikari 6, and was built in Winchester sometime in the mid 70s-early 80s. It would be nice to take this on as it doesn't look very complicated, but the smashed windscreen may be irreplaceable (but I suspect it could be a parts bin item) and being an unregistered prototype it may be a difficult legal matter, eitherway it isn't something I am willing to take on at the moment, though if someone here is interested, I can drop a post-it on it and hope for the best, it was there last summer, assume it still is. I would appreciate your thoughts on this enigma privatewire, Skizzer, Craig the Princess and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Pastry Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 My thoughts - 1. That's a Perspex screen. 2. More trouble than it is worth. chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterH Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, Mr Pastry said: My thoughts - 1. That's a Perspex screen. 2. More trouble than it is worth. I must admit I was thinking along the same lines, must be realistic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 interesting machine, What driveline is on this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterH Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 minute ago, goosey said: interesting machine, What driveline is on this ? I think it is Mini/Metro based, according to this article, I think they did earlier 6-wheel mini jobs before starting a related venture in Winchester http://maximummini.blogspot.com/2020/03/shikari.html goosey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Pastry Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 It is quite nice though to discover a car which nobody on the interwebz knows anything about! Twiggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Metro headlights... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezzabsa Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Looks very much like a Sherpa screen.. the corners especially....and also look like Ford GL wheels on the rear.. would be easy enough to throw another screen surround at it....if you can mould fibreglass.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezzabsa Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Found this...Here...clicky thinky looking a bit more down at heel than the previous piccies..but also shows the remains of a canopy of sorts on the back timolloyd and scdan4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 That looks terrible; when are you having it delivered? IVA might be a bit fruity, perhaps try chancing it as an agricultural vehicle. spartacus and Kringle 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezzabsa Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 and also bears no relation to its fore bears Stimson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Mr Pastry said: My thoughts - 1. That's a Perspex screen. 2. More trouble than it is worth. Given the way the smash/orifice appears I'd say you're right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterH Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 8 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: That looks terrible; when are you having it delivered? IVA might be a bit fruity, perhaps try chancing it as an agricultural vehicle. Oh I haven't bought it, it isn't mine, I just found it and virtually no one seems to know what it is, at last though I have a place I can talk about it scdan4, eddyramrod and chaseracer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartacus Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Buy buy buy!!! That's grim, it needs saving and an epic thread about the trials of locating obscure parts and the difficulties of registering it writing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 My thoughts. 1. You don't need a screen. 2. You do need it to be registered, unless you own a field. MisterH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterH Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 7 minutes ago, Mally said: My thoughts. 1. You don't need a screen. 2. You do need it to be registered, unless you own a field. We do own a field, just an inaccessible one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 4 minutes ago, MisterH said: We do own a field, just an inaccessible one... Helicopter! Twiggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterH Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 Just now, Mally said: Helicopter! With the amount of Tat on my wishlist, an Antonov An-225 would be needed... Twiggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
castros_bro Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 I'd have thought the difference between a mock up and a working one might just be fitting a Metro Engine and gearbox,, and would be so little as to make it pointless to make just a mock up. if you can remove the screen without breaking it more, maybe with a bit of added support across the missing bit, it is not too difficult make a wooden form to shape and reproduce a one off perspex screen, Ive done that for Berkeley T60s and B90s. There's other 6 wheeled Mini engine kits form similar era so a chance they share some parts (hopefully not the hydroplastic suspenders) though the wheel size looks completely different. If I still lived in Winchester and worked at the motocross track I'd be interested. Theese people possibly know more https://minimarcos.org.uk/altpics/index.html Scamp Hustler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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